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Posted on July 2, 2016August 3, 2016

Desert Island Discs: Roy Plomley’s castaway is naturalist Maxwell Knight

On Monday 28 June 1965 at 13:10 on the BBC Home Service, Maxwell Knight was Roy Plomley’s castaway on Desert Island Discs and his favourite track was The Waiter, the Porter and the…

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Posted on June 17, 2016June 21, 2016

Nature: friend or foe?

“Many people think that animals of all kinds can be neatly put into groups and labelled Friend, or Foe; or Harmless, or Harmful. Unfortunately, nature does not work like this,…

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      • Accounts by people including Mark Rose, CEO of Fauna and Flora International
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